RE: The Venus Project And Resource-Based Economy - Transformation Towards Truly Anarchistic Social System
Although I am a technologist (Software engineer) and love the benefit to society that all tools bring, not just "hi tech / electronic" tools, I am very skeptical of grandiose projects that seem to elevate technology to the level of a godlike savior.
Take technology like the Internet and blockchains. Like any tool it can be used for good to help people be more free or used for evil to enslave them, for example through surveillance and "big data".
I'm still open to new ideas and new tools but I will not assume an increase in tools and technology will lead to a better world. It is not the tools but rather the intentions within the hearts of mankind that will determine the role technology will play in our future.
James Corbett and Richard Grove have been conducting research and interviews on the subject of "technocracy" which I highly recommend. They both interviewed Patrick Wood, who has done his own research and has written a book about technocracy, it origins and its' evolution going way back over 100 years.
Thank you for your comment and upvote.
RBE is not a technocracy. We cannot debate RBE unless you familiarize yourself with this concept well enough.
I'm not going to ask you to read a book but reading all TVP FAQ on their website is a good introduction. Also those 2 videos in the article are good basic introduction.
Nowhere in TVP it says that technology is a savior. TVP and Fresco clearly say that what need to be changed as priority are human values. It does not matter how advanced science or technology is if we still keep current primitive values which has not changed for thousands of years. One of core research of TVP is fouces on social engineering of human behaviour - application of science of human behavior (human behavioral biology an evolution, genetics, epigenetics, psychology etc) towards redesigning current distorted and unscientific value system towards sustainable one.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@logic/technophobia-irrational-fear-of-technology-and-it-s-detrimental-consequences-for-our-society
Perhaps as you say I'm not well informed enough about RBE to understand, however the background and history of technocracy was thoroughly discussed by Patrick Wood who made a pretty good case for why RBE and technocracy are nothing more than an agenda (21) being forced upon the world. Are you familiar with Dr. Wood?
I'm open to learning why it is not. You claim it's not but you didn't justify that claim. How is it different? How is it the same? Who decides where a societies' resources should be allocated (who designs the algorithms and by what consensus is that being done)?
I appreciate your reply. I will review the material you linked in it.
No one decides. Like I said, this is CYBERNATED system.
Please familiarize yourself with TVP first. Thanks
Read all FAQ
James Corbett excerpt from: https://www.corbettreport.com/against-utopia/ "Remarkably, even now, long after the 20th century technocrats and their vision of the industrial nirvana have been so thoroughly discredited, after hundreds of years of utopian socialist fantasies have shown to lead to nothing but suffering and bloodshed, there is a new class of technocrats who are rising up to once again offer the masses a technological utopia which will provide for all their needs.
Once again we are being told that in this coming utopia an army of benevolent machines will provide for all our needs. There will be no need for money or property, no need for violence or coercion of any kind ever again. In fact, we are told, this technological revolution will not only transform our society, but human nature itself. Freed from the shackles of want by the machines that will provide for all our needs, humans will no longer be violent or selfish or greedy.
This system, we are told, will be “rational” and “logical.” The machines will know what resources are needed, how to acquire them, and how to distribute them. The machines will be able to calculate our needs and provide for them better than we ever could. The machines will be programmed by scientists, and, we are led to believe, they will always know how many toothbrushes to make.
There is no need to worry about who owns the machines, we are told, no cause for concern about how they are programmed or how they make calculations about things we don’t know. In this utopia, the proponents of this movement tell us, there will be no evil people, no elite class that tries to control others, no one at all who tries to control the system, because human nature itself will no longer allow for it.
Ultimately, perhaps it is not surprising that such utopian fantasies can still attract acolytes."